Gonzalo Vazquez Vilar

Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar received the Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2004 and 2005, the Master of Science Degree from Stanford University, U.S., in 2008 and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 2011.

Since 2014 he has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Previously, in the period 2011-2014, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He participated in a exchange program with the University of Applied Sciences of Saarland, Germany, and was employed as project engineer at Siemens AG, Germany in the years 2005 and 2006, respectively. He has also held appointments as visiting researcher at Stanford University, U.S., University of Cambridge, U.K., and Princeton University, U.S.

Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar received the Pedro Barrie de la Maza Graduate Scholarship to join Stanford University and the FPI and Juan de la Cierva Research Fellowships from the Spanish Government. His research interests lie in the field of Shannon theory, with emphasis on finite-length information theory and communications.